Feyenoord is flink onderuit gegaan bij de start van de Champions League-campagne. In de nieuwste aflevering van Feyenoord: De Verlenging werd er uitgebreid teruggeblikt met Frank Stout, Dennis Kranenburg en Dennis van Eersel. De heren waren, vooral door het vertoonde spel, positief gestemd.

A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11. “Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans were targeted for how they looked, dressed, or prayed.”

Bayeux Go! A playable video game of the Bayeux Tapestry. “Thou art Harold. Win Thine Battle. Tap to starte.”

The "K" symbol alongside the Kiabi typography becomes a strong marker and central to the brand experience. Simple, recognizable, and universal, it is now expressed everywhere, from digital to physical stores.

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On a company-wide Slack this morning, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced he has been put on a paid leave of absence.

“And the biggest news: I won't be able to make the ELT tomorrow,” Matt wrote in an Announcement Slack. He continued, writing that Mark Davies, current Automattic Chief Financial Officer, has “conspired” with Automattic Board of Directors members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker “behind my back and they voted to put me on a paid leave of absence. I voted against that.” 

He wrote that Davies was voted to be the new interim CEO. “I received the resolution 50 minutes before the meeting start, and requested repeatedly for time to have it reviewed by independent legal counsel, even a few hours, which was denied,” Mullenweg wrote.

Mullenweg is the founder of Automattic, the company that owns WordPress, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a host of other popular internet brands and pieces of software. Mullenweg has faced several controversies over his management of the company in recent years.

In the same Slack channel, Davies wrote that Mullenweg would remain a board member and “he will have a voice in setting direction and making decisions.”

"As you have seen from Matt's previous messages, Automattic's board has decided to ask Matt to step away from his CEO role and take a leave of absence,” Schneider wrote following Mullenweg’s message. “We have asked Mark Davies to assume the interim CEO role while Matt is out. We've worked closely with Mark over the years and we're confident he will steer the ship well while Matt is away. I'm sure you will have many questions and Mark and your leadership team will be available to answer them.” 

“I want to thank Matt for his support and I intend to support him, the Board, Automattic, and our customers during this interim situation,” Davies wrote in that Slack channel. “It will take me some time to come up to speed, but we'll move forward with transparency, communication, and teamwork.” He wrote that nothing will change as a result of Mullenweg’s leave.

Mullenweg, Automattic, Schneider, and Davies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

For the last few years, Mullenweg has waged a divisive legal battle with WP Engine, sparing publicly with opponents and peers on social media and in his personal blog. In 2024, he made an “Alignment Offer,” giving Automattic employees who disagreed with his stances the option to take six months of pay or $30,000, whichever was higher, with the stipulation that they would lose access to their work logins that same evening and would not be eligible for rehire.

One hundred and fifty-nine people took the offer and left. He then made another buyout offer, and threatened employees who spoke to the press with termination, saying, “exit gracefully, or be fired tomorrow with no severance.” 

Most recently, Automattic attempted to claim it owns the word “automatic.” 

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At its September event today, Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone and one of the biggest changes to the device's form factor since its debut. Starting at $1,999 and available for preorder beginning October 16th, the device is roughly the size of a passport when closed and pairs a 5.4-inch outer screen with a 7.6-inch Super Retina XDR inner display. Apple says the inner screen offers 50% more display area than the iPhone 18 Pro Max, while the exterior display provides about 90% of the screen area of an iPhone 18 Pro. Apple Pencil support for both displays is coming later this year.

Apple redesigned parts of iOS around the folding form factor. Users can run two apps side by side, launch two instances of the same app, save app pairings, and partially fold the phone to prop it up on a table without a stand. The interface automatically adapts as the device is opened, rotated or folded, while apps including Zoom and Slack are already being redesigned to take advantage of the larger canvas.

There are more than 100 components in its hinge, along with carbon-fiber support plates and a titanium layer beneath the folding display. Apple says the multilayer screen structure allows its components to move relative to one another while folding to reduce distortion over time. The phone is IP68 rated and uses Ceramic Shield on the rear and Ceramic Shield 2 on the exterior display.

As for battery life, Apple claims up to 31 hours of video playback using the inner display or 44 hours on the outer screen, although using both displays equally is rated for up to 24 hours per charge. Fast charging can bring the battery to roughly 50% in 20 minutes, though. The device is eSIM-only worldwide and includes Apple's new C2 modem, which the company says is up to 50% faster than the C1X while consuming up to 15% less power.

What about the camera system? There's a 48-megapixel ultrawide, along with cameras on both the inner and outer displays. Because the phone can stand partially folded on its own, Apple is pitching new shooting modes including hands-free 4K Dolby Vision HDR time lapses, dual-camera capture and an outer-screen preview that lets subjects see themselves while being photographed.

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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max were announced today and keep last year's overall design but put the emphasis on camera upgrades, including a 48-megapixel variable-aperture system, new manual controls, and 4K Dolby Vision recording. Prices for the devices start at $1,199 and $1,299, respectively. TechCrunch reports: The new Pro series camera features a 48-megapixel camera with variable aperture, made with six thin blades. This system will likely improve low-light photography quality and speed. There are also new pro controls in the camera software, including white balance, shutter speed, aperture and histogram. There are also new photographic styles with texture and grain controls. [...]

The new camera can record 4K videos in Dolby HDR Vision, and also apply cinematic effects after shooting the footage. The new Pro devices also have a smaller dynamic range island on the front of the device, which now allows you to track three live activities instead of two.

Both phones are powered by Apple's latest A20 Pro silicon and feature a newly designed vapor chamber for improved cooling. The company has also improved the battery with a better design. Apple also said the iPhone 18 Pro supports video playback of 36 hours, and the 18 Pro Max has 45 hours of playback capacity. Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, Its First Foldable iPhone

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Slovenië stond tot voor kort bekend als een van de meest kritische landen in Europa als het aankwam op Israëlisch geweld in Gaza en de Westelijke Jordaanoever. De nieuwe regering gooit het roer om en steunt Israël juist.

It was the time and place for Alexis Mac Allister to do his talking on the pitch and the disgruntled Liverpool midfielder did not disappoint. “Very sad” over Liverpool’s refusal to offer him a contract extension, while Dominik Szoboszlai and Ryan Gravenberch were getting theirs, Mac Allister made Anfield very happy with a match-winning display against Atlético Madrid.

The Argentina international, one of five World Cup finalists involved in a finely-poised, absorbing contest, vented his frustration in the best possible way with an immaculate 20-yard strike that extended Diego Simeone’s winless sequence against English opposition in the Champions League group phase to 11 matches. Mac Allister’s moment also gave Andoni Iraola the perfect start to life in the Champions League, and there were several contributions for the Liverpool head coach to savour. From Alexander Isak’s relentless pressing to Florian Wirtz’s consistent creativity, Liverpool rose to one of their toughest tests of the competition.

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After their record-breaking feats last year in the Champions League, Arsenal are at it again. But having been delayed along with hundreds of travelling supporters by travel chaos on Tuesday, Mikel Arteta’s side had to bide their time against Napoli until Martin Ødegaard continued his rich vein of goalscoring to start the new campaign with the crucial strike.

Perhaps it was the fact they were forced to wear red shorts for the first time since a Premier League game against Watford in 2022 due to Uefa’s insistence that Arsenal were not quite at their flowing best here. Yet they were deserved winners in the end and the substitute, Noni Madueke, should have made the victory more comprehensive in the dying moments as Napoli chased the game. Having come so close to breaking their duck in this competition last year after becoming the first team to win all eight of their group stage matches, Arsenal look equipped to go all the way again if Ødegaard can keep up this sparkling form.

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Meganebashi (眼鏡橋, lit. Spectacles Bridge) is the most remarkable of several stone bridges that span the Nakashima River in downtown Nagasaki. The bridge, which gets its name from the resemblance it has to a pair of spectacles when reflected in the river water, is a popular tourist attraction and is designated as an important cultural property.

The bridge was originally built in 1634, its construction overseen by the Chinese monk who would go on to become the resident priest of Kofukuji Temple, which is located a short walk away. The bridge, along with many of the others along the river, was badly damaged by floodwaters in 1982, but has since been repaired with recovered stones.

There is a stone walkway along the river bank that makes for a pleasant stroll with nice views of the water and bridges. The walkway has a tranquil atmosphere and is accessed by steps from street level positioned at various points along the river.

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NEW YORK (ANP) - Coco Gauff neemt het tegen Elena Rybakina op in de halve finales van de US Open. De 22-jarige Amerikaanse versloeg in New York in drie sets Mirra Andrejeva uit Rusland: 3-6 7-6 (7) 6-2.

Rybakina had eerder op de dag in drie sets gewonnen van de Chinese Zheng Qinwen en zich daarmee ook verzekerd van de eerste plaats op de wereldranglijst. De andere halve finale gaat tussen de als eerste geplaatste Aryna Sabalenka uit Belarus en de Amerikaanse Jessica Pegula.

De als vijfde geplaatste Andrejeva won eerder dit jaar Roland Garros. Coco Gauff, de nummer 4 van de plaatsingslijst, won het toernooi in Parijs een jaar eerder en won in 2023 in New York haar eerste grandslamtitel.

NIJKERK (ANP) - Het verkeer op de A28 kan weer richting Utrecht via de Hardenbergerbrug, meldt Rijkswaterstaat. De wegbeheerder heeft herstelwerkzaamheden aan die kant van de brug afgerond. Het vrijgeven van de rijrichting Zwolle duurt wat langer. "Daar wordt nog hard gewerkt aan het afbouwen van de verkeersmaatregelen", aldus Rijkswaterstaat.

Maandag constateerde Rijkswaterstaat dat er met spoed onderhoud nodig was aan de brug bij het Gelderse Nijkerk, omdat de veiligheid van de constructie van de verbinding niet kon worden gegarandeerd. Er was zand en grind weggespoeld rond de pijlers van de brug.

Eerder op woensdag meldde minister Vincent Karremans (Infrastructuur en Waterstaat) dat de brug om middernacht weer gebruikt kan worden.

MADRID (ANP/AFP) - De Spaanse veiligheidsdienst heeft voorafgaand aan de massale instroom van migranten in de exclave Ceuta al gewaarschuwd voor een dergelijk incident. De Spaanse premier Pedro Sánchez zei eerder in het parlement juist dat er geen signalen waren voor zo'n instroom, maar uit nu vrijgegeven documenten blijkt het tegendeel.

De grensdivisie van de politie (CENIF) kwam met een waarschuwing op 29 juli, de dag voordat de toestroom van naar schatting 80.000 migranten naar Ceuta begon. In het bericht staat dat migrantengroepen bezig waren met het organiseren van een massale binnenkomst in de nacht van 29 op 30 juli. Ook werd vastgesteld dat in de weken daarvoor al veel meer mensen dan normaal hadden geprobeerd om de exclave te bereiken.

De Spaanse regering kreeg veel kritiek over de migrantencrisis en de oppositie stelde dat er signalen waren genegeerd. De regering kondigde dinsdag aan inlichtingen vrij te geven om transparant te zijn over welke kennis er op voorhand was.

OPINION Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly announced his resignation on X late Monday over concerns that AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade." A lot of people have expressed opinions about his point of view, leading to more than 110 million views of the message in less than 24 hours, perhaps helped along by X algorithms that boost messages critical of owner Elon Musk's AI rivals, Anthropic and OpenAI. But the real problem isn't the models themselves, but the companies who carelessly unleash them on the world and don't take any responsibility for what their products do Coxon's former colleague, science lead Evan Hubinger, insists his view is a fair assessment of what employees really think. "Jacob is correct here – we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10 percent within the next decade," wrote Hubinger in a social media post. "I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to." (Aside: If you want a surefire bet on a prediction market, take the "no." If you're right, you get paid. If you're wrong, there's no one to pay. The problem of course is prediction market manipulation: Those betting against you might steer us toward the apocalypse to score a Pyrrhic victory.) There are good reasons to be concerned about the impact of AI. Coxon and Hubinger obviously have deep knowledge of the technology. But their broader concerns about how AI affects the world are unpersuasive. For example, Coxon said, "These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. … No other human activity poses this level of danger." Here's one: Human-induced climate change. In 2023, according to researchers, more than 178,000 deaths can be attributed to a global heat wave. "More than half (54.29 percent) of heatwave-related deaths were attributable to human-induced climate change," they claim. That's 96,636 deaths attributable to human activity – or perhaps lack of it – just in the context of a heat wave. The World Health Organization says, "Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year, from undernutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress alone." Some portion of that follows from human activity, perhaps including the construction of data centers that put millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually. Commercial AI chatbots have allegedly played a role in a few dozen deaths, some of which were suicides – a small fraction of the 48,824 suicide deaths in 2024, per the CDC. Broad categories where AI is presumably doing measurable harm include warfare (e.g. AI-directed drones), AI-related medical errors, AI vision system failures in self-driving cars, and AI-driven social media – algorithmic incitement that can drive violence or shape policies that lead to conflict or death via global healthcare funding cuts. At the same time, some of that harm may be balanced on a statistical level by lives saved through AI tech. But Anthropic researchers don't seem to have much to say about these very real and present dangers – rather, their main concern is that AI models might become smarter than humans through reinforcement learning and somehow seize power and wipe out humanity. "I think the risk from present models is low," said Hubinger. "What I am worried about is superintelligence arising from recursive self-improvement, as we have said is happening faster than we thought." How this might happen is left to the imagination. But assuming for a moment that it's a plausible possibility, the Skynet scenario would require monumental human stupidity alongside the emergence of superintelligence. And human stupidity is worth worrying about. Incidents like the hacking of Hugging Face by OpenAI's evaluation models would not be possible without human irresponsibility and a regulatory environment that accommodates recklessness. Autopilot for cars? Neat. Try not to kill anyone. Letting AI bots roam the internet and take arbitrary action? Cool. Let's see what happens. We'll deal with accountability later. To mitigate AI risk, society could pass laws to put executives in jail when their models do harm. There is precedent: Oliver Schmidt, general manager of Volkswagen's environmental and engineering office in Michigan, received a seven-year prison sentence for his role in the car maker's effort to manipulate emissions tests. Selling unsafe airbags merits criminal prosecution, even if the execs paid fines instead of doing time. Selling unsafe dehumidifiers earned the execs behind Gree USA, Inc. jail sentences of more than four years. If AI models really are as dangerous and out of control as Anthropic employees suggest, hold people accountable for the harm they cause. The AI industry might argue that imprisoning execs for shipping unsafe models would mean no AI models get released. And that would be the point: AI companies would be responsible for model safety. I'm personally hoping to see this billboard copy along US 101 in Silicon Valley: "Did Claude rm -rf /* your SSD? You may be entitled to compensation." ®